I came upon this question. On a first look I thought that the code was formatted with a backtick starting and ending every line:

I decided to correct this but when I clicked on edit I saw that it was correctly formatted with three backticks before and three backticks after the code. It was even rendered correctly in the edit window:

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The question was last edited before backtick formatting was introduced (asked on Oct 17 '16) and the layout has been cached. The rendered output only gets updated when some modifications happen to the question.

@Michael Yes, now they are. But in 2016 they weren't.
– BDLMay 28 at 17:23

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Support for GitHub-style triple-backtick code-block demarcators was silently introduced around the beginning of this year (2019). Prior to that, there was no support for them at all, so the backticks on that post just got interpreted as requesting inline code formatting. @Michael
– Cody Gray♦May 28 at 23:28